Someone tell me I am NOT crazy!!!

1) michael@deathwish:~/dev/trafficapp$ cat vendor/plugins/active_rbac/init_engine.rb
require 'active_rbac_config'

# Configure the Engine's version
module ::ActiveRbacConfig::Version
  Major = 0; Minor = 3; Release = 2
end

Engines.current.version = ActiveRbacConfig::Version

# we need some fixes to rails
require 'railfix'
# require the model mixins
$:.each { |x| puts x } <--- i planted this
require 'active_rbac/exceptions'
require 'active_rbac/group_mixin'
require 'active_rbac/role_mixin'
require 'active_rbac/registration_mailer_mixin'
require 'active_rbac/static_permission_mixin'
require 'active_rbac/user_mixin'
require 'active_rbac/user_registration_mixin'


2) michael@deathwish:~/dev/trafficapp$ ls vendor/plugins/active_rbac/lib/
active_rbac  active_rbac_config.rb  railfix.rb

3) rake engines:info
(all the load paths my planted code prints)
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/actionwebservice/lib/action_web_service/vendor/
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/vendor/
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/../../action_controller/vendor/html-scanner
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/vendor
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../test/mocks/development
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../app/controllers/
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../app
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../app/models
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../app/controllers
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../app/helpers
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../components
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../config
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../lib
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/plugins/active_rbac/lib <--- see below
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/plugins/engines/lib
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/railties
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/actionpack/lib
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/activesupport/lib
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/actionmailer/lib
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/actionwebservice/lib
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/i486-linux
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/i386-linux
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-linux

rake aborted!
no such file to load -- exceptions

4) ls vendor/plugins/active_rbac/lib/active_rbac
exceptions.rb  group_mixin.rb  registration_mailer_mixin.rb  role_mixin.rb  static_permission_mixin.rb  user_mixin.rb  user_registration_mixin.rb
^^^^^^^

Ruby version                 1.8.4 (i486-linux)
RubyGems version             0.8.11
Rails version                1.1.2
Active Record version        1.14.2
Action Pack version          1.12.1
Action Web Service version   1.1.2
Action Mailer version        1.2.1
Active Support version       1.3.1
Edge Rails revision          unknown
Application root             /home/michael/dev/trafficapp
Environment                  development
Database adapter             mysql
Database schema version      0